Being told I'm too different.

Quite frankly, I'm sick of feeling like I'm so different.

My views are different.
My last industry was too different.
My approach to leadership is different.
My approach to recruitment is different.
My approach is different.
My story is different.
I am different.

I know!  
I know I'm different.  
I literally blog about my awareness of my "different" almost every day.  
And, I'm okay being different. So why am I bothered? 

Because I'd like others to be okay with my different, too.  
Because I'm getting sick of the lip service about how people are "inclusive," but then use my "different" to discount my capability.
Because I'd like others to see me the way I see them - for all they could be, would be and want to be if you only gave them the opportunity to show.  

Is this a post asking for pity?  
Hardly! No. I don’t need pity.

I'm comfortable, and frankly proud, with and of myself.  

This is a post that calls you to action.  

To really think about the times when you look at others who are different, what aren't you seeing in them? Are you discounting them? Are you underestimating them?    

You and I can't control how others see us.
But, we can control how we see others.